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And on Page 2 -1, the correct diacritical marks for "Malama Ki" should have the macron or macona over the word "Kr. I also had another one that I wondered whether the Council should consider whether the word "ohi`a" should be changed to "ohi`a- lehua" to actually reference the tree that they are referring to; and that is because the word "ohi`a" in the Hawaiian language dictionary can also mean mountain apple, a tomato, a native variety of sugar cane, and a variety of taro, among other meanings. And so those are non - substantive, but I wanted to submit those for your consideration. WOODWARD: Okay, thank you, Madam Director. Do we have any questions for the Director? Okay, seeing none, we do have four people from the public signed up to testify. If we can get you to come up as I call your name, have a seat at the table here, Daniel Taylor, Jon Olson, Rob Tucker and Tim Rees. REES: I was testifying on a later matter. WOODWARD: Oh, okay. Let's see, if I could get you, let's see, you two gentlemen have already been sworn in. I'd like to swear you in. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? TAYLOR: I do. WOODWARD: All right, very good. And Mr. Taylor, you have signed up first. If you'll give us your name and address, and then you may begin your testimony. TAYLOR: Okay. My name is Daniel Taylor. I'm a resident of Volcano community. I have been a resident in Hawai`i for about 30 years. And I represent the Action Committee for the Puna Community Development Plan, and I'm speaking on their behalf. But I'd like to point out, you all lowlanders are wearing short sleeves and I am cold in this room. I had to put a sweater on to keep myself going here. I'd like to complement the Planning Director. We are very gratified by the amount of attention you gave to our letter and to the very rational well- thought response to us. And I'd like to pass on the respects of the Action Committee, too, for that. What remains with respect to Bill 194, just a few points where we'd like to simply clarify some of our thinking, we don't have a disagreement with anything. We simply would like to clarify some of our thinking on five points. And they're listed in a 2 1/2 page thing we copied for you; and they're available. I'm not, I'm not going to bore you by reading it, besides we have to get off for lunch in a few more minutes. We are still a little bit uncomfortable with something that the Planning Director referred to a few minutes ago about the kind of language that Bill 94 would use to tweak the, subtly tweak the intent of the community plan. We need some help on this. Our committee is new and this whole idea of community driven and action committees is kind of a new concept. And we might be 5